Former Nixa resident found guilty in drug case

10:17 AM,
Dec. 10, 2012

Gerald Bluford

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News-Leader Staff

Former Nixa resident Gerald Bluford will have more time added to his prison sentence now that a jury convicted him of possession of a controlled substance.

Bluford, 52, is a prison inmate at Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron, serving a total of 25 years for voluntary manslaughter and armed criminal action. Bluford was arrested on Nov. 20, 2007, in the stabbing death of Eric Eidson, 40, with whom he shared a condo unit in Nixa. Investigators say Eidson was stabbed 78 times. When Nixa police officers arrested Bluford after Eidson's death, an officer found 4.39 grams of cocaine in ...